It Is Hard For Any One To

Mankind Are An Incorrigible Race. Give Them But Bugbears And Idols -- It Is All That They Ask; The Distinctions Of Right And Wrong, Of Truth And Falsehood, Of Good And Evil, Are Worse Than Indifferent To Them.

Art Must Anchor In Nature, Or It Is The Sport Of Every Breath Of Folly.

There Is Nothing Good To Be Had In The Country, Or If There Is, They Will Not Let You Have It.

Affectation Is As Necessary To The Mind As Dress Is To The Body.

It Is Not The Passion Of A Mind Struggling With Misfortune, Or The Hopelessness Of Its Desires, But Of A Mind Preying On Itself, And Disgusted With, Or Indifferent To All Other Things.